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This Is How You Could Buy Cheap PC Games Before Steam

Shareware allowed budding developers to distribute their games affordably and reach a wider audience through copying and ...
PC Gamer

Mail trucks and millions of dollars: how shareware transformed PC gaming forever

We can thank floppy disks in Ziploc bags for the FPS genre as we know it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The year is 1982. The ...
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What the Hell Are on These Free Floppy Disks for Free Play Arcade’s Hackers Party?

There was a time long, long ago when the world didn’t have a magical cloud that stores every file they own. Data had to be stored on hard drives or something called a floppy disk, a form of hard copy ...
Kotaku

The Slightly Sketchy 1990s 'Computer Fairs,' A Major Part Of My Gaming History

We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy III, and it ...